killed three and injured more than one hundred forty and what is the worst attack on u.s. soil since nine eleven. venezuela's opposition takes it to the streets. of the oil rich nation is at a crossroads following a razor thin election victory in the arab shop. seventy days off of the grueling mass hunger strike began and the number of protesting detainees is on the rise with indefinite detention plight driving them to the edge. twenty four hour worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me will receive a welcome to the program. twin blasts at the finish line of the boston marathon have left three dead including an eight year old boy and more than one hundred

forty currently in hospital with various injuries many lost limbs during the bombings. has the latest from the scene of the. the state of massachusetts holiday turns into a tragedy in the heart of boston just several minutes before three pm local time at the finishing line of the boston marathon two explosions seconds apart from each other killing at least three people according to witnesses who were on the ground during the explosions the situation was extremely chaotic terrifying body parts were seen flying about blood everywhere i was there with my sister she had left work early and she when the first bomb went off there was just a silence that went over the crowd and then i immediately screamed started hopping and she grabbed my hand and just start running in terms of the measures that local officials had put in place we do know that a no fly zone was imposed over boston for several hours earlier today now flights

are allowed back into the city again cellphone service was shut off for several hours also in fear that further explosions more remote to donations could take place and of course several hotels in the area including the one behind me people were evacuated from those hotels the locals were advised to stay home and not come out into public spaces we do know of course that security is going to be heightened in the hours and days to come here in boston and it has also been beefed up in major cities throughout the united states including of course new york city where two successful terror attacks so-called successful terror attacks had taken place and sixteen plots of verted in the last years and in terms of what's going on in boston right now we do know the investigation is ongoing the f.b.i. is right now in charge of this case but we're being told that police here on the ground are looking into a surveillance photo of a man carrying two backpacks but no people have been taken into custody as of yet

and one of the major questions that remains to be answered is whether or not this attack was a domestic or foreign one and. boston massachusetts. and as a last year was talking about there at this point nobody has claimed responsibility for the terror attack while the white house says the perpetrators will feel the full weight of justice portnoy has this report. u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. does not yet have all the answers as to who was behind the attack and why they did this but obama said the u.s. will find out who did it and will hold him accountable he would not go into detail he said an investigation is ongoing and that. u.s. federal officials will be helping out boston in any way that city needs as they continue searching for clues as to what caused it to to the bombings their work proximately twenty seven thousand people participating in the boston marathon and

tens of thousands on the streets watching the event and also securing the perimeter ironically there were so many police officers on the scene so many a mass workers this explosion went off and just about ten seconds later a second explosion went off there is some horrific images out there of some of the victims some of whom lost limbs what history has shown is that if the u.s. is attached washington to brutality and it has retaliated over the course of more than a decade we did have the patriot act in the aftermath of this temper eleventh attacks that department of homeland security was created and the controversial drone program was implemented under the ministration of forged w. bush and it was carried out. by president obama but what many would argue is that even with all those different measures put in place through war and through

surveillance that it still doesn't prevent horrific attacks like the one scene unfolding in boston. let's get some reaction now from a money well auction russia editor in chief of the german news it might be as you know to now joining us here live on a c a good to see you today let's get into it straight away nine eleven led to the war on terror in the boston bombing is ultimately the word to talk in america since then what measures can we expect washington to take no do you think. well first of all we have to say we right now we don't know anything all the big groans they are. but they are all i remember yesterday that. they were. all right wing extremists my pleas those homes of those who are writing. me extremists and so on so we see there are a lot of which means. they have to investigate very quickly there is

a lot of pressure in the whole country especially the security authorities very very nervous right now and not just the u.s. american also all the west it's. you who the reaction. european politicians germany my chancellor and your. latest my foreign minister. where you. are probably the greatest of this take what we can see yesterday and. it reacted very creepy dissipate we know it was secure but i was as you say i'm sort of in trouble as you say washington reacted very very quickly on this but also as you said a moment ago. some investigations to do as well also some questions to answer because when you consider all the security places all the security measures in place across america various events including the marathon itself how could an attack like this have slipped through this is this is the big question but the

answer on the speaker in this very easy and i think it's too easy to understand or is it possible people in the security because it means at the end you cannot one hundred percent security and even if you do the best surveillance there is no one hundred percent surveillance and security it shows that you can be harmful always also in the u.s. and what we can see. all of this yesterday is that. because they use the media coverage they knew with it. all the cameras will be on it and they use that they show what the security authorities of the united states of america are that they want to do they and this was so you know i mean you're absolutely right man well you're absolutely right the cameras the news cameras positioned at the phonology that the ground ending of the marathon so they were all in position to

get the footage when the bombs did explode but regardless of who actually perpetrated the bombings i mean many would say that surely the you also u.s. war on terror cannot be justified when you have something like this happen on home soil. yes of course. the general problem is that as well as war against terrorism it's not there to be who we know what this is all bits of war are put on the back on civilians which harm civilians we see it on both sides we see it we saw it yesterday we saw it all saw it nine eleven we see it it all makes in the west we see it also out of the war on terror we see it when you respond. on the on the web being part you know i understand we see it when countries for example like iraq which was we have to see liberated by the the so-called leader but he has all the west where yes to the right when the bomb protect in boston there were in fact

a bomb explode with forty six people and more than one hundred almost tried and i mean not you know it was not just yesterday's bombing in iraq but also over the past one month a thousand people have actually being killed through various terror attacks across iraq. well i wish we had more time for this we absolutely don't and the editor in chief of the german news magazine thank you very much indeed for joining us here on our see from the news magazine zoo worst excuse me thank you if you. are let's get straight to this news just in here on r t an earthquake of magnitude eight point zero has hit iran the tremors being felt across the gulf states and no immediate reports of casualties or damage i will bring you more on this developing story as soon as we get it. all right so let's turn our attention now to venezuela where in the capital caracas police have fired tear gas to disperse crowds protesting the official results of the presidential election came off to the

opposition candidate and accused his opponent of foul play and urged people to take to the streets venezuela's electoral already rejected holds for a recount of sunday's vote. chavez's hand-picked successor win by a razor thin majority as aussies test australia before continuing with the shop is most courses going to prove a tough task for the new president elect. when the results of the presidential election on april fourteenth was announced there were huge celebrations in this district heavily supporting nicolas maduro the so-called successor of us now his supporters tell me the old vote the margin between my daughter and his main opposition in this was very small they say that with this victory the spirit of the . chavez continues to live on my daughter was in a for a very very big job there's a lot of problems that we have to solve even supporters reiterate the fact that there are a lot of problems that have to be addressed such as food shortages medicine

shortages as well as the issue of crime being really wants this addressed because they say they just don't feel safe on the streets but there was also a parroting the one of the world's largest oil reserves as the world will be watching on how this is going to be managed moving forward and also muddle will happen what a very short grace period including his ability to unite a very divided country we've seen in the elections it was almost a fifty fifty split between the two model and the u.s. and one more task would be to see the military support we know that will go chavez was was a former army tank commander you have the military support and this is something that model will have to work or perhaps the biggest challenge for miccolis model is filling his predecessor shoes as many of his supporters have been saying a vote. model is in fact a vote for who got shot is. reporting back in caracas an independent election observer dr julia buxton she believes a seemingly fair vote could end up sparking major tensions all over the oil rich

state. fair it was transparent this is a fully automated place and that is this whole business is a very very narrow victory for the story but really to call into question the capacity in the technical feasibility of the voting system i think is very very unfortunate my immediate concern now is that if the united states does not recognize the election process here in the picture the model right this is going to once again put venezuela and the united states on a very very strong bilateral clash is going to be even more problems going forward in that relationship spain i believe has come out and said that it's not had to recognize the picture at the moment again i think it's very unfortunate in some way responsible for these countries to be pronouncing so soon and we really need to see the old it's at this facing crisis before we should be making such diplomatic declarations. and dot com right now we're asking you what's next for venezuela and . nicholas some of the numbers from. ultimately predicting chaos in the all of rich state saying washington will interfere because it's not satisfied with the results let's skip the second position let's go down to

the third one now in the orange or yellow economic stagnation that socialism cannot see and up fixing down to where the bare minimum now nine percent of voters that are basically saying well it's going to be protests further fueled by the oppositions and the riots over the results of what will follow the model to victory in venezuela have your say at the dog. while i still to come here on the program a israel the sixty fifth anniversary of its founding but it's still plagued by security problems while occupying ever more palestinian lands a more on that in just a. clear image of the iraq story facing. twenty day taxi trip through the country.

the roads full of. evidence from north to south. the root of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi. live.

thank you for joining us here on our show in moscow the u.s. military has confirmed the number of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay has gone up again now standing at forty five that's still around three times and less than the figure claimed by the lawyers of the captives as the protest nears the middle of its month detainee desperation has been growing and security guards firing non-lethal rounds over the weekend when several inmates resisted being put into a single cells the military says its force feeding scene of the captives to prevent them from starving and meanwhile administration officials claim washington is still committed to shutting down the facility and despite legal hurdles preventing its closure or even the repatriation of detainees cleared for release years ago the u.s. state department's patrick ventrell was a grilled on the issue by a.p. john list. we still have staff will continue to work on this account is it not the

administration's position that you're that it's completely has been completely hamstrung by congress in trying to relocate these people so to be essential you legal right i think i did i said no i know but so why didn't i express in overconsuming of wasting their time on this if it can't be done legally again the president's commitment to closing it continues and so while we have closed a special i was office we do have staff to continue to explore but why do they need to explore if they can if they can't be done if it can't be done without changing the law i mean are they working on it by trying to convince lawmakers to lift some of the restrictions let me check in with our legal guys are staff overnight see if we can get your update if there are specific cases that we are able to work on given the restrictions on job it was far as i could i mean at least from this podium loose from this room over the last thing that the last progress there was on this was you denying the russians permission to see the russian t.v. . again so i just unclear to me i have it exactly the staff is working on if it's

illegal to transfer them under the law let me check with their experts on this matter and see if i can get back if there are specific cases. we are closely watching the following the hunger strike it went on i'm a baby you can just head over to our tea dot com a full timeline of events of the notorious for sit. off the paying tribute to its fall and on memorial day on monday israel ushered in celebrations for its sixty fifth anniversary seventy's come as anti iran rhetoric reaches fever pitch and the palestinian issue remains an open wound with a peace solution nowhere on the horizon and this report out who wants these polis leah. country celebrates its sixty fifth birthday but it comes against the backdrop of settlement expansion continuing it also ignores the existence of a huge palestinian population of which israel cannot control these kind of steps twitter and many are warning in effect to back we see this in many editorials they

threatening to turn israel into a non democratic country where doc style of religion holds sway and there is a sizable and noticeable upsurge in the fall voice religious minority in this country that is both small and does have a very vocal representation and there are real concerns over just how much power the religious have on monday the country held its national memorial day it is a day for israel's fallen soldiers as well as victims of terror there were a number of alternative memorials that were held these calls for attention to be paid to palestinian victims that they received very little attention in the mainstream media the criticism by and large is that is will commemorate all its wars as having had the higher moral ground when in fact there are very big questions over whether or not many of the wars were in fact the more such as the fifty six sinai campaign the eighty two war in lebanon and the two palestinian

intifada these are wars that are controversial but they are not presented like that in the general israeli discourse although there are widespread celebrations throughout the country there are a lot of postmen and important and critical questions that are being asked the situation between israel and its bordering countries is unclear the situation between israel and the palestinian territories is ambiguous and the future status over jerusalem is also unresolved many are saying that in fact the situation between israel and its neighbors remains fragile and unstable which is why many are asking what exactly is there to cheer about sixty five years on. three twenty pm here in the rush. capital national celebrations in north korea a seeing more warlike rhetoric often marking marking the birthday of its founder kim il sung on monday the reclusive states army has demanded an apology from the south for hostile acts towards it and those threatened retaliation at any moment kyung i gave little hint during festivities that the test firing of its latest

missile was imminent with people gathering in squares with flowers to pay tribute to their leaders but america south korea and japan said the country appears ready to launch a medium range rocket despite u.n. sanctions and washington does in the meantime spend huge sums of money on what it calls maintaining peace on the peninsula but critics warn that's exactly what's provoking pyongyang meanwhile china says the u.s. is destabilizing the asia pacific by sending more troops ships and planes to the area. from the institute for policy studies believes things could change but only if america softens its stance. there have been a number of initiatives coming from the obama administration some meetings in the past over the in the first term even though the official policy was of course strategic patience in other words basically ignoring north korea's long as possible china of course is very interested to see negotiations go forward south korea under

its new leadership. has proposed discussions with the north so all signs point toward negotiations on the other hand the united states has also said look there might be some preconditions here and preconditions in the past of basically scotched any attempt to have any negotiations so i think of the united states really wants to see some negotiations moving forward it's going to have to go to the table without any preconditions. i defy any john zero north korea news junkie just head to our web site on c.n.n. dot com up there for you right now this hour is where you'll find out why one of britain's top universities is furious with the b.b.c. for using its students as a cover during a trip to pyongyang that's just a click away also a look right here a bright bowl of lights up the sky above the spanish capital madrid filling astronomers and onlookers learn more about the mysterious object online.

for now syria's president bashar al assad has signed a decree slashing prison terms by three quarters for some of the rebels labeled as terrorists and also one of the move which comes ahead of a national holiday and the death sentences have been commuted to a life sentence of hard labor in october last year the syrian regime also decreed an amnesty as part of the u.n. brokered temporary cease fire would reduce the sentences for the rebels that turned themselves in but not for those that hold terrorists it's unlikely the move will soften the nation's main opposition coalition was the monza one hundred and sixty thousand prisoners be freed under president assad to step down at the syrian army's been fighting militias for more than two years with rebel ranks now crawling with islamic extremists tied to al qaida. and of lawyers say pakistan's former military ruler. has been disqualify him from running in the general election of the country

and wish to return to pakistan only last month after self-imposed exile hoping to run in the race despite death threats from the taliban assembly elections on may the eleventh are expected to mark the first time in the country's history that there's been a transition between two democratically elected governments. calls are being made in britain to reassess the way the country's broadcasters bring news to the public and they should have aims to free them from their legal duty to up. hold impartiality let the coverage reflect the opinions of their owners. or. the way that newspapers and news channels are regulated in the u.k. is stossel any different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please the example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. or the london times on the right but for news channels it's

a whole different story they're legally bound by off to be impartial and if they're deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging and news portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this regulation surely distinction fat and does it make sense well the lords communication committee have come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality rules from now on public broadcasting i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that industry is regulated right now is an outdated media and you're saying news websites look more and more like t.v. channels the channels have their news websites it's all converged is that impartiality or sport for us to compete york city to not entirely know we firmly

advocate that the public service book courses in this country should be just to the exactly the same way as they do not they provide. the measure of impartiality how achievable is impartiality i know that right now there is the impartiality clause but nevertheless we have perceived biases from all the news channels that exist right now doesn't personality exist at all well it's a very slippery concepts you quite right to say but one of the advantages of a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question. of impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is the only right way but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing that you're quite right in saying you'll find in quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers from outside our jurisdiction if commercial pastors and given free rein to do what they like what about barbara well i mean the crucial point here is that in a world where ip t.v.

is going to be the norm relatively soon all this stuff is going to be streamed into into into people's houses if they want to watch it and that's the big question is which people want to watch there are some very basic issues that surround that is very very basic and shows the matter is that's what the future's going to look like so it's all very well us being very pious here but the short answer is it's not going to stop it already if you can get stuff off the internet from these other countries providing with extremely partial news thank you very much for your comment well thank you very much for taking part. in just a moment it's a break in the search without a lot. oh no lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal

entities for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where we're in this is just silly there's a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media conducts more and eyes ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of more like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. because there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out for bid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is

over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion. choose your language. with. some. choose to. choose the stories but if you. choose access to. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so

many i mean. i know that i'm sitting seems really messed up. in the all very slow motion of the. worst year for the least a little white house or for the. radio guy and for minestrone. what clothes were about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what's up guys welcome to breaking the set i'm abby martin so i want to time alerting viewers about issues that politicians often overlook or simply ignore however former congressman ron paul says an exception so you just made a public statement about the awful detention of army private bradley manning former presidential candidate told us news that it's manning who deserves the nobel peace prize not president obama.